As 2024 comes to a close, we believe now is the perfect time for companies to start planning their corporate team building 2025 activities. Early planning is key to ensuring the smooth execution of major events and employee team-building programs throughout the year.
Have you ever thought about integrating CSR and corporate team building together in an event? This innovative program combines CSR and corporate team building with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), offering employees a meaningful experience beyond normal team-building activities that companies usually organize. By participating in CSR-focused team building, employees not only enhance their teamwork skills but also have the chance to contribute to the community.
Planning early also helps allocate the budgeting process for the entire year, ensuring that all company events are aligned with financial goals and your overall corporate CSR events strategy.
We are the experts in the corporate team building industry, and let us show you what are the 5 impactful activities that combine corporate team building and CSR that are suitable for your 2025 company programs.
5 Activities That Combine Corporate Team Building and CSR
1. Beach Clean Up
People view CSR activities as just community service; however, it actually has a significant impact on your employees! This year, for instance, we successfully organized a CSR team-building event—a beach cleanup—in collaboration with our partner Warner Music Group. Despite challenging weather conditions because it's Monsoon season and raining on the day we do the program, over 100 participants came together for a meaningful deed during Q3 of this year!
Based on our experiences, the initiative works just fine and even better than traditional team-building. From planning and organizing to coordinating the event, everyone was involved in every stage, and this really helped to foster teamwork and collaboration. We also hosted another wonderful corporate team bonding activity at Pantai Remis with BT System Sdn Bhd, where employees bonded over shared goals while giving back to the environment.
If you're looking for a unique corporate team building event that also makes a positive impact on the community, combining CSR activities like beach cleanups into your team-building calendar can deliver remarkable results. The good thing about this CSR is that the cost is as low as less than RM 2,000! Amazing, right?
2. Planting Trees
Planting trees is one of the traditional corporate social responsibility activities that every company should try at least once. Why? To be frank, planting trees is the easiest to conduct compared to other CSR activities—and what makes it different is only the after-planting activities. Companies can gamify the planting activity by creating groups, where each group needs to complete the mission before the program ends. The mission could be guessing the plant type or taking group pictures at certain checkpoints. These serve as mini team-building activities while also benefiting the environment.
For companies that wish to conduct this planting tree CSR team-building event, bear in mind that booking a venue for planting trees takes some time—up to 6 months to 1 year—as this program is very popular among corporate companies. There are a few venues to consider, for example, Taman Tugu, Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam, FRIM, Taman Paya Bakau Sejangkang, and many more! This year, we successfully conducted our own CSR activity by involving the public community in planting mangrove trees at Taman Paya Sijangkang.
3. Corporate Workshops and Associations
Organizing corporate workshops in collaboration with private organizations or associations that serve specific communities is one of the best CSR team-building options for companies. For example, we previously conducted a successful on-site health screening event with the Malaysian Blind Association. It was an incredibly rewarding experience that required teamwork to organize and execute the event.
In addition, companies can collaborate with other associations—such as the National Cancer Society of Malaysia—or even work with orphanages to host workshops for children. These initiatives not only allow employees to come together during the planning phase but also require them to collaborate in real-time while managing the program on the day of the event. Workshops suitable for adults include terrarium workshops, batik painting, or tufting; and for kids, you could even organize a keychain-making workshop, coloring, or many more! We created these events for them, and what we received in return was their happiness!
Such CSR activities offer a meaningful way to give back to the community while fostering stronger teamwork and camaraderie within the company—an essential aspect of successful corporate team bonding activities.
4. Fundraising Corporate Event with Public
Organizing events together is a highly effective strategy to strengthen team bonding, encourage collaboration, and ultimately ensure the success of the event. Many leading companies recognize the power of such initiatives and invest time and resources into planning events that foster a sense of unity and engagement among their employees.
For instance, this year, corporations like Standard Chartered organized a fundraising marathon in Kuala Lumpur. This kind of event not only promotes a healthy lifestyle but also encourages employees to work together toward a common cause, such as raising funds for charity. By participating in these events, team members step out of their usual office roles and engage in a more relaxed and collaborative environment, strengthening personal connections. In addition to marathons, companies can also create recycling events while fundraising simultaneously. The concept is the same—creativity is needed to make it successful in your corporate team building 2025 calendar!
5. Medical Check-Up or Health Carnival
As a corporate wellness provider, this is one of the ways that Vealth.me contributes to society while enhancing team bonding. We’ve already done it, and we believe that your organization can do it too! Last year, we conducted on-site health screenings with the Malaysian Blind Association, and this year, we worked together with Jabatan Belia dan Sukan Negeri Sembilan for a mini health check with the Orang Asli community in Kampung Pabai Miku, Negeri Sembilan.
We gained experience in planning activities, finding vendors, arranging manpower for the event, and even executing the event on the day itself. We believe that without teamwork, none of this would have been possible! The great thing is that through events like this, employees work as a team in a more efficient way than in traditional corporate team-building activities where employees are often separated into groups. In events like this, employees work together to achieve the same goal: ensuring the success of the event and boosting corporate team bonding.
Now, you have a range of ideas for team-building activities with CSR integrated into your company programs. With 2025 just around the corner, it's time to impress your management with these amazing ideas for even better employee activities in the upcoming year. Good luck!
